unable to pickle.load an AxesSubplot object

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Python 2.7.9 :: Anaconda 2.1.0 (64-bit)
Matplotlib 1.4.0

Example code from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7290370/store-and-reload-matplotlib-pyplot-object

Getting a following exception on pickle load:

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AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
2 import pickle
3
----> 4 ax = pickle.load(file('myplot.pickle', 'rb'))
5 plt.show()

/home/anaconda/envs/py27/lib/python2.7/pickle.pyc in load(file)
1376
1377 def load(file):
-> 1378 return Unpickler(file).load()
1379
1380 def loads(str):

/home/anaconda/envs/py27/lib/python2.7/pickle.pyc in load(self)
856 while 1:
857 key = read(1)
--> 858 dispatchkey
859 except _Stop, stopinst:
860 return stopinst.value

/home/anaconda/envs/py27/lib/python2.7/pickle.pyc in load_build(self)
1215 setstate = getattr(inst, "setstate", None)
1216 if setstate:
-> 1217 setstate(state)
1218 return
1219 slotstate = None

/home/anaconda/envs/py27/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.pyc in setstate(self, state)
1343 allnums = plt.get_fignums()
1344 num = max(allnums) + 1 if allnums else 1
-> 1345 mgr = plt._backend_mod.new_figure_manager_given_figure(num, self)
1346
1347 # XXX The following is a copy and paste from pyplot. Consider

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'new_figure_manager_given_figure'